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1. Add MS 14252

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Add MS 14252
Title:
Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglie; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno Imperatori Graecorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Tribus Mortuis a Christo Suscitatis; a prose description of England based on Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum; Laws related to the Commune of London; genealogies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a collection of legal treatises, of which Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 155 is the first volume. Add MS 14252 mainly contains law texts related to England and the ‘Commune of London’: a corporation of London citizens which had been r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 62122

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Add MS 62122
Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew; Commentary on the Book of Daniel
Scope & Content:
This is one of the few manuscripts to survive from the Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon at Tavistock (Devon). This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, and contains biblical commentaries by the Church father St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), whose writings were central to the st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Claudius A V, ff 2–45

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Cotton MS Claudius A V, ff 2–45
Title:
Pseudo-John of Peterborough, Peterborough Chronicle, AD 654-868, 890-1368
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-45r : Pseudo-John of Peterborough (fl. 1369), Peterborough Chronicle from AD 654-868, 890-1368, copied in the 2nd half of the 14th century. A continuation from AD 869-899 (ff. 5v-9r), is copied in an early modern hand from the 1st quarter of the 17th century. This manuscript c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius A V

4. Cotton MS Claudius A XII

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Cotton MS Claudius A XII
Title:
Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Historia Normannorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; Bury St Edmunds hosteller’s register; William de Montibus, Poeniteas Cito
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-78v: Dudo of Saint-Quentin (b. c. 965), Historia Normannorum (History of the Normans), beginning: 'Totius namque molis orbe descripto'. ff. 78v-83r: Marbod of Rennes (b. 1035, d. 1123), De Lapidibus (About Stones), beginning: 'Evax rex Arabum legitur scripsisse Neroni’. ff. 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century-1450
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Claudius A XII, ff 84–199

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Cotton MS Claudius A XII, ff 84–199
Title:
Hosteller’s register of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds; William de Montibus, Poeniteas Cito
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 84v-195v: Hosteller’s register of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds. ff. 196r-197v: William de Montibus (d. 1213), Poeniteas Cito (I Urge You to Repent), in a late 12th-century hand, with marginal gloss, beginning: '[P]eniteas cito peccator cum sit miserator'. f. 197v: A colophon: '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1450
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius A XII

6. Cotton MS Claudius C IX

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Cotton MS Claudius C IX
Title:
Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronicle; annalistic chronicle, AD 1–1171; William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum; Notarial copy of letters patent of Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558–1603), issued at Hereford Cathedral; Charters of Kings Edward I (r. 1272–1307) and Henry III (r. 1216–72) of England for the Abingdon Abbey; Award of Norham, addressed to the abbot and convent of Battle; Liber terrarum of Abingdon Abbey and other memoranda
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately in England during the 12th and 13th centuries. The first part (ff. 4-17), written in the 2nd half of the 12th century, contains the Chronicle of the theologian Hugh of Saint-Victor (b. c. 1096, d. 1141). The second p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Cotton MS Claudius E III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius E III
Title:
Ralph of Diceto, Abbreviationes Chronicorum, Ymagines Historiarum; Winchester Chronicle; Henry Knighton, Chronicon; William Rishanger, Opus Chronicorum; Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici Quinti; Robert Grosseteste, Epistola
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made out of four parts. The first part contains the Abbreviationes Chronicorum (Abbreviations of Chronicles) and the Ymagines Historiarum (Images of Histories) by Ralph of Diceto (b. c. 1130, d. 1202), as well as the Winchester Chronicle. The second part was made in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1197-1450
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 169–307

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Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 169–307
Title:
Henry Knighton, Chronicon
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 169r-307r: Henry Knighton (d. 1396), Chronicon (Chronicle), beginning: 'Hoc opusculum post preclaros retroactorum eventuum in regno Anglie et eius confinibus luculentos cronografos'. [f. 307v is blank]. Decoration: 1 large pen-flourished initial H in blue ornamented with red (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius E III

9. Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII
Title:
Treatise on the singing of the Psalms (fragment); Chronicle from the conception of Christ until 1062; Chronicle of Tewkesbury Abbey to 1263 (imperfect); Cartulary of Tewkesbury Abbey; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Collatio Compoti Romani et Arabici; Herman of Reichenau, Computus Abbreviates; computistical argumenta
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains four parts (ff. 1, 3-69, 70-106, 107-165) that were written separately between the late 11th and 2nd half of the 13th centuries. Two parts were certainly written at and for the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin at Tewkesbury, as these contain the annals a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII, ff 3–69

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII, ff 3–69
Title:
Chronicle from the conception of Christ until 1062; Chronicle of Tewkesbury Abbey, AD 1–1062, 1066–1263 (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-8v: A chronicle from the conception of Christ until the year 1062 ff. 9r-62v: A chronicle of Tewkesbury, 1066-1262 (‘Tewkesbury I’). ff. 63r-69v: A chronicle of Tewkesbury, 1258 to 1263 (‘Tewkesbury II’). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 61r: A history of the ci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII

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